Faculty Fellows Program

RIT’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) promotes excellence in teaching and the creation of exceptional learning experiences by championing an effective and innovative teaching culture across the University.

The Center for Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellows Program at RIT is designed to provide full-time faculty with leadership opportunities in advancing RIT’s strategic goals in the area of teaching and learning. In offering this new program, we seek to align faculty expertise as teaching practitioners closely with the work of the new Center for Teaching and Learning. Faculty Fellows will work with RIT faculty to support their development of a range of pedagogies and teaching strategies.

The CTL Fellows Program offers faculty opportunities to partner with the Center for Teaching and Learning in two roles:

• Discipline Fellows advance teaching excellence within the college-based disciplines: Humanities/Social Sciences, Science/Health Sciences, Engineering, Business, The Arts, Computing/Technology.
• Strategic Priorities Fellows advance key strategic priorities which span the university: Diversity Equity & Inclusion, Gateway Course Student Success, Generative AI, and Math.

The Faculty Fellows are currently developing a range of new programs across multiple formats including workshops, panel speaker events, teachers on teaching series and teaching circles to supplement the Centers innovative training opportunities. These will initially focus on enhancing teaching tactics in the area of student engagement, using academic technology to its best advantage, and strategies for reflective teaching practice.

Discipline Faculty Fellows

Advance teaching excellence within the college-based disciplines: Humanities/Social Sciences, Science/Health Sciences, Engineering, Business, The Arts, Computing/Technology.

Strategic Priority Faculty Fellows

Advance key strategic priorities which span the university: Diversity Equity & Inclusion, Gateway Course Student Success, Generative AI, and Math.